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Bode Diagram
100
50
Figure 2. The generation of grid reference current.
Magnitude (dB)
0
MATLAB/S[MULINK software. [n addition, whole control
system is implemented via a digital signal processor
-50
(DSP)-based prototype board for a 4kw single phase PWM
rectifier.
-100
90
Phase (deg)
A. Control System 0
with each others. To bring zero steady state error with rapid
transient response, a common PI regulator is employed as the -90
1 2 3
Ks
GpR (s)=Kp + 2 r 2 (2) -40
Magnitude (dB)
S + lOo
-50
ideal resonant controller with high gain value may result in Frequency (Hz)
384
B. Phase locked loop (PLL) pass filter. The complete parts of the proposed PLL are shown
To provide unity power factor, phase estimation of the grid in Fig. 5.
voltage is needed to be used in a current control loop.
Therefore, it is so important to have perfect phase estimation III. PASSIVE ELEMENTS SELECTION
especially under harmonic polluted grid voltage to guarantee
unity power factor. An implementation of a fast and high A. Ls selection
reliable PLL in DSP is proposed in this paper (Fig. 5). There are two main passive elements for rectifier: input
The most important parts of this PLL are orthogonal signal inductor between grid and converter (L,) and an output DC-link
generator and phase detector (PO) units. The most famous PO capacitor. Although high value of Ls results in smoother and
is a multiplier unit as depicted in Fig. 5. Assume low-THO grid current but, it deteriorates the dynamic response
and increases the voltage drop which decrease a maximum DC
Y 1 =cos( O1t+�) and Y 2 =cos(Wi+rp 2 ) , the product of these
link voltage. The L, can be selected according to mathematical
two signals is given in (4): model of converter, maximum current ripple, switching
1 frequency and DC-link voltage but this method is so
Yl xy, ="2{ cos((� +w, )t+!p, +!P2 )+cos((� - W, )t+!Pl - !P2 )} (4) complicated [17]. A very simple method for practical
implementation is to assume a %10 of maximum grid voltage
If U1 '" 0)2 ' passing the Yl XY2 from a low pass filter result in for voltage drop across the Ls:
(5).
(6)
Yl XY2 =cos( rp.. -tpJ=cos(!ltp) (5)
This method is tested and resulted in low current ripple and
Due to usage of an integrator in PLL, stable point of PLL is good dynamic response.
achieved with zero output of PD. Consequently, employing a
multiplier as PO shows 90° phase shift between input and B. Cdc selection
output sinusoidal signals which is not applicable. It is worth to In single-phase power systems, the input power can be
be mentioned that the use of two orthogonal signals with two calculated as follow:
multipliers can set the output sinusoidal signal at 0° phase shift
with respect to reference or input signal. This idea is inspired V I V I - -
by three phase system in which using a abc to afJ reference i = � + � cos(2cot)=Pm+Pm
Pm=Vmm (7)
2 2
transformation generate two perpendicular signals [15-16].
Now, the problem is orthogonal signal generating. Based on (7), first term (�n ) is a constant value and
At steady state condition, the phase and frequency of input second term (�n ) is an alternating power at double grid
and output signals are the same. Therefore, a perpendicular frequency. To ensure constant and low ripple voltage in DC
signal can be generated using PLL outputs. On the other hand, link, the alternating part should be dispelled by
the voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) can be implemented DC-link capacitance. Then, the energy balancing between
through look-up table and simple counter. As a result, to capacitor and grid can be defined as (8).
ft �os(20Jt)dt
achieve two orthogonal signals, just the pointer index must be
changed. To provide an orthogonal signal, the VCO index 1 2 2 V I
-C dc (Vdc _Vo )= (8)
pointer is shifted 90°. This simple approximation removes all 2 0 2
of calculation burden which imposed by other methods.
Solving (8) and applying a Taylor expansion and removing
PD
high order components, the time domain result of DC voltage
is given in (9).
cos(m,t)
where Vo is the nominal DC voltage.
sin(m,t)
, --- - ------------------
With respect to minimum and maximum of DC voltage
,
, (Vdc. min , Vdc. max) , the transferring energy M during charging
, process is calculated as follow:
,
,
, z·t ' 1
, 2 2 (10)
� J
M:=-Cdc(Vdc, max -Vdc, m ni )
__________________________
veo 2
Also for DC voltage, the (11) can be resulted as follow:
Figure 5. The structure of the proposed single phase PLL.
385
Rated power 4 kW 54
Grid voltage (V,) 220 v (rms)
-
DC-Link voltage (Vo) 450 v 53
f---'�-+-
Filter Inductor (L,) 7. 6 mH
DC-Link capacitance (Cdo) 2200 IlF 52 It.. "'--- -
'II''r-'
Sampling frequency
Switching frequency
12 kHz
3 kHz /�
A
Kp 2
I
K, 50
Kp, 2
49
K, 5
48
- vde,max +V de,min
Vo '
AVdC=Vdc,max -Vdc,min (11) 47
2 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4
Time(s)
Based on (9), (10) and (II), the maximum voltage ripple can
be calculated as (12). Figure 6. Variation of VCO input according to reference frequency step
change.
P
AVde =Vdc,max -V dc, nun. = ---
� (12)
de V 0
0.8
If AVde «a%) *Vo then, the minimum DC-link voltage is
0.61--1-+--1
calculated as follow:
0.4
> 100x�n 0.2
C de - 2
(13)
amVo ----
o
386
Fig. 10. Accordingly, the DC-Link voltage controller tracks the
1.5 desired value precisely. The PR current regulator tracks the
Reference signal
Output of PLL
reference current with THD value lower than 4.9% which is
1
acceptable from international standards point of view. Also, the
power factor is greater than 0.99 in which considerably low
reactive power is absorbed by rectifier.
0.5
To evaluate a transient response of control system, DC load
experienced a incremental step change and the results are
0
shown in Fig. I I. Evidently, the reference value is tracked as
fast as few periods. On the other hand, the voltage controller
-0.5 retrieves the voltage drop very fast which is not sensible.
-1
-1.5
0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.1
Time(s)
4000
P(W)
2000
(a)
0
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2
400
200
Vgrid(v)
0
-200
-400
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2
50
Igrid(A)
-50
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2
(b)
600
500
Vdc(v)
400
300
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2
Time(s)
387
voltage as well as low THO value of grid current and unity
power factor.
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